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There has been substantial work studying consensus problems for which there is a single common final state, although there are many real-world complex networks for which the complete consensus may be undesirable. More recently, the concept…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-24 Isaac Klickstein , Louis Pecora , Francesco Sorrentino

Synchronization control of coupled continuous-time linear systems is studied. For identical systems that are stabilizable, a linear feedback law obtained via algebraic Riccati equation is shown to synchronize any fixed directed network of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-01-23 S. Emre Tuna

This paper proposes a new architecture for multi-agent systems to cover an unknowingly distributed fast, safely, and decentralizedly. The inter-agent communication is organized by a directed graph with fixed topology, and we model agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-11 Hossein Rastgoftar

In this paper, we propose a new framework for synchronization of heterogeneous multi agent system which we refer to as weak synchronization. This new framework of synchronization is based on achieving the network stability in the absence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-04 Anton A. Stoorvogel , Ali Saberi , Zhenwei Liu

The synchronization of human networks is essential for our civilization, and understanding the motivations, behavior, and basic parameters that govern the dynamics of human networks is important in many aspects of our lives. Human ensembles…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-08-26 Shir Shahal , Ateret Wurzberg , Inbar Sibony , Hamootal Duadi , Elad Shniderman , Daniel Weymouth , Nir Davidson , Moti Fridman

We study a network of coupled logistic maps whose interactions occur with a certain distribution of delay times. The local dynamics is chaotic in the absence of coupling and thus the network is a paradigm of a complex system. There are two…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-02-03 Marcelo Ponce , C. Masoller , Arturo C. Marti

The presence of synchronized clusters in neuron networks is a hallmark of information transmission and processing. The methods commonly used to study cluster synchronization in networks of coupled oscillators ground on simplifying…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Matteo Lodi , Fabio Della Rossa , Francesco Sorrentino , Marco Storace

As a quantification of the main bottleneck to flow over a graph, the network property of conductance plays an important role in the process of synchronization of network-coupled dynamical systems. Diffusive coupling terms serve not only to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-10-29 C. Tyler Diggans

In this letter, we perform a sensitivity analysis on the master stability function approach for the synchronization of networks of coupled dynamical systems. More specifically, we analyze the linear stability of a nearly synchronized…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 Francesco Sorrentino , Maurizio Porfiri

Synchronization plays a fundamental role in healthy cognitive and motor function. However, how synchronization depends on the interplay between local dynamics, coupling and topology and how prone to synchronization a network with given…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-06 David Papo , Javier M. Buldú

Although the set of permutation symmetries of a complex network can be very large, few of the symmetries give rise to stable synchronous patterns. Here we present a new framework and develop techniques for controlling synchronization…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-05-04 Weijie Lin , Huawei Fan , Ying Wang , Heping Ying , Xingang Wang

The widespread relevance of complex networks is a valuable tool in the analysis of a broad range of systems. There is a demand for tools which enable the extraction of meaningful information and allow the comparison between different…

Physics and Society · Physics 2011-03-30 Kathryn Cooper , Mauricio Barahona

This paper examines the structural controllability for a group of agents, called followers, connected to each other based on the consensus law under commands of multiple leaders, which are agents with superior capabilities, over a fixed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Milad M. Kazemi , Mohsen Zamani , Zhiyong Chen

In this paper, the complete synchronization problem of linearly coupled neural networks with reaction-diffusion terms and time-varying delays via aperiodically intermittent pinning control is investigated. The coupling matrix for the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Xiwei Liu , Zhang Chen , Lingjun Zhou

Future communication networks are expected to feature autonomic (or self-organizing) mechanisms to ease deployment (self-configuration), tune parameters automatically (self-optimization) and repair the network (self-healing).…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-07 Richard Combes , Zwi Altman , Eitan Altman

The propensity for synchronization is studied in a complex network of asymmetrically coupled units, where the asymmetry in a given link is determined by the relative age of the involved nodes. In growing scale-free networks synchronization…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong-Uk Hwang , Mario Chavez , Andreas Amann , Stefano Boccaletti

In this paper, cluster consensus in continuous-time networks of multi-agents with time-varying topologies via non-identical inter-cluster inputs is studied. The cluster consensus contains two aspects: intra-cluster synchronization, that the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-05-20 Yujuan Han , Wenlian Lu , Tianping Chen

The onset of synchronization in networks of networks is investigated. Specifically, we consider networks of interacting phase oscillators in which the set of oscillators is composed of several distinct populations. The oscillators in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Ernest Barreto , Brian Hunt , Edward Ott , Paul So

Matrix is a new message-oriented data synchronization middleware, used as a federated platform for near real-time decentralized applications. It features a novel approach for inter-server communication based on synchronizing message history…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Florian Jacob , Jan Grashöfer , Hannes Hartenstein

We study synchronization dynamics in networks of coupled oscillators with bimodal distribution of natural frequencies. This setup can be interpreted as a simple model of frequency synchronization dynamics among generators and loads working…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-07-03 Sergi Lozano , Lubos Buzna , Albert Díaz-Guilera